I was going to say that starting my second year as ‘The New Chair’ was a bit easier than the first – and I suppose that so far it is. However, I think it is more accurate to say that it has been ‘different’!

True, there’s not been the mad panic of wondering what to do in the first meeting, and feeling as though you’re finding your way in the dark. But I seem to have replaced ‘new’ with other challenges. Maintaining harmony amongst governors, increasing its professionalism, dealing with a very small number of, but quite complicated, parental complaints and even though we took academisation…